If the PDF file is inside some folder and that folder doesn't have permission to access files in that folder directly then you have to bypass some file access restrictions using.
If you link to a. PDF it will open in the browser. If the box is unchecked it should link to a. Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group. Create a free Team What is Teams? Collectives on Stack Overflow. Learn more. How do I force files to open in the browser instead of downloading PDF?
Ask Question. Asked 10 years, 5 months ago. Active 5 months ago. Viewed k times. I tried using the embed tag and an iframe, but it only works when that option is checked.
What can I do? Peter Mortensen Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Quentin k gold badges silver badges bronze badges. ColinM ColinM Taboada but then the user's system may not know the file type. Perhaps if you want to override the user's preferences then octet-stream would be the way to go, but giving the correct type and a suggested filename is the "correct" way to provide a download. So my question is should the content type be set before uploading? And also, we get only a link from the backend team, a url that gives the file path, that we open in new tab using:window.
Kailas I don't understand what you're trying to do.. These headers have no effect on a file upload, you need to have the code behind the url set the headers every time it is downloaded by the client. ColinM Thanks buddy, you said it right, the issue when we debugged was the mime type was set while uploading the files.
This should be done by the back-end team. I tried to get codes on how to add headers in java script but was not successful. Thanks, as I got the real idea cleared from you Show 5 more comments. It uses the custom filename specified on the view side. Christophe Roussy Christophe Roussy Akshay Akshay 2, 3 3 gold badges 32 32 silver badges 70 70 bronze badges. If you have control over the server code you should use 'attachement' as this will allow to use the same filename generation code.
If you have no control over the server this is a good solution. This is a brilliant solution to the problem however, as always, IE is holding us back from using it: caniuse. Important to note that this does not work across domains e. If downloading from one domain, the download attribute will not work if content is stored on a different domain. I need to create pdf from a div html but I don't wish to open another window,download should be seemless like in this answer..
As right now August , Browser support seems to be enhanced for this feature, see: w3schools. Note that the download attribute is only supported for same-origin requests. This is only possible with setting a http response header by the server side code. Apache example. Flask example. Unfortunately iOS will still preview and not download pdf files even if the content disposition is 'attachment'. TylerH Hmm, it works great when I open the php file directly. Then the redirection works perfectly.
You can use Response. URL window. Prasad Joshi Prasad Joshi 4 4 silver badges 12 12 bronze badges. Without html5 attribute one can achieve this by using php: Create php file named download. Just a heads up that you need to be careful when you are going to do this with URL parameters. Because one could then also call download. Additional checking for extensions, mime-types and allowed paths to download from and stripping stuff like "..
If the file is in an external URL, you must make an Ajax request, but if it is not, then you can use the function: download Path, name, mime Read their documentation for more details in the GitHub. Vishnu S. This is the best javascript solution for downloads in another domain. Edhowler do you have example for this please? I answered in a new post. The solution that worked best for me was the one written up by Nick on his blog The basic idea of his solution is to use the Apache servers header mod and edit the.
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Both downloading my. And in the second one using the filename option seems to do nothing at all. Aleksi Yrttiaho Aleksi Yrttiaho 7, 26 26 silver badges 35 35 bronze badges. Nejmeddine Jammeli Nejmeddine Jammeli 8 8 silver badges 15 15 bronze badges. Edhowler Edhowler 8 8 silver badges 16 16 bronze badges. Sign up or log in Sign up using Google. Sign up using Facebook. Sign up using Email and Password. Post as a guest Name.
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